Russia's Putin says his young family members speak fluent Mandarin Chinese
Russia's Putin says his young family members speak fluent Mandarin Chinese
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday (Aug 2) that young members of his family speak fluent Mandarin, though he told school children they should not forget the importance of English too despite the growing popularity of Chinese. Putin has two daughters with his ex-wife Lyudmila and...
I'm glad he's setting a good example for the rest of Russia, they'll need that pretty soon.
Amid a growing partnership between China and Russia, Mandarin has been growing in popularity across Russia as a foreign language of choice, a trend Putin said was due to developing contacts across economics, politics and society.
Putin, who speaks fluent German but has also taken lessons to improve his English, said that pupils should not forget the importance of English.
Russian, English, Tatar, German and Chechen are the most widely spoken languages in Russia, according to the 2022 census. While Mandarin is spoken far less, it has been growing swiftly in popularity in recent years as a foreign language.
English is the world's most spoken language with about 1.5 billion speakers, followed by Mandarin Chinese with about 1.1 billion speakers, and then Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian and Urdu, according to Ethnologue, a language research centre.
Huh sombody downvoted this comment when it was removed, i must have a fan
Maybe, but also deletions don’t always propagate immediately—or ever—to other instances.
Oh in that case it was chance it was actually deserved since i was pretty confused at first and the post was bad.
Smartest thing I've heard attributed to him in a hot minute.